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Integrating mathematics and other learning areas: Emerging tensions from a study Involving four classroom teachers

Pythagoras

 
 
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Title Integrating mathematics and other learning areas: Emerging tensions from a study Involving four classroom teachers
 
Creator Mwakapenda, Willy Dhlamini, Joseph
 
Subject Mathematics Education; Mathematics; Education situated learning; real-life problems; connections
Description This paper presents findings from a pilot study that investigated the extent to which teachers make connections between mathematical concepts and concepts from other disciplines. Data from concept maps and interviews were collected. The analysis revealed that the kinds of connections teachers made are closely tied to teachers’ disciplines of specialisation. The findings suggest that for some teachers, though desirable, it may not be feasible to require them to make connections with disciplines that are not within their areas of specialisation. This presents tensions for learners learning mathematics in classrooms where opportunities for making connections between mathematics and other learning areas are available but are neither taken up nor appropriately used by teachers.
 
Publisher AOSIS Publishing
 
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Date 2010-07-04
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion — —
Format application/pdf
Identifier 10.4102/pythagoras.v0i71.3
 
Source Pythagoras; Issue 71 (2010); 22-29 2223-7895 1012-2346
 
Language eng
 
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https://pythagoras.org.za/index.php/pythagoras/article/view/3/3
 
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Rights Copyright (c) 2010 Willy Mwakapenda, Joseph Dhlamini https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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